Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for November 26, 2020

Ooh! Do Morgellons next! It’s a condition that’s not even real!        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons

I absorb diseases from the internet.

The Professional Sicky who hangs out in waiting rooms.

“Six “Common” Medical Conditions That Don’t Actually Exist"

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2017/07/20/six_common_medical_conditions_that_dont_actually_exist.html

Candidiasis Hypersensitivity

Non-Celiac Gluten SensitivityI

Morgellons. In 2001, Mary Leitao’s two-year-old son developed a few sores and complained of “bugs.” When Leitao examined her son’s sores under a microscope, she found a number of multicolored, wispy fibers in the vicinity. Every doctor she visited did not find anything pernicious about her son’s sores, but Leitao wouldn’t accept their diagnoses. She was convinced her son had a rare and nefarious condition.Over the ensuing years, various media outlets covered Leitao’s neurotic cries. Eventually, enough people thought that they, too, suffered from the mysterious malady that the Centers for Disease Control was forced to commission a $600,000 review to study it. Analyzing 115 supposed sufferers over three years, the researchers determined that the lesions likely resulted from compulsive scratching, and that the strings “sprouting” from the sores were nothing more than clothes fibers. Without physical evidence for its existence, Morgellons is more likely an offshoot of paranoid delusions rather than a real condition.

Wilson’s Thyroid Syndrome. In 1990, E. Dennis Wilson, insisted that his self-titled syndrome is caused by low body temperature and slightly impaired thyroid function and recommends treatment with the hormone triiodothyronine.The American Thyroid Association reviewed Wilson’s claims and found no evidence that his disease exists. In 1992, Wilson was disciplined by the Florida Board of Medicine for promoting his “phony diagnosis.” That discipline included a six-month suspension of his medical license, a $10,000 fine, and that he submit to psychological testing.

Adrenal Fatigue. Coined by a chiropractor, adrenal fatigue seems to run off the notion that because you can get tired, specific body parts can, too. In the case of this fabricated disease, the lazy do-nothings drained of power are your adrenal glands, resting just above the kidneys.Alternative health practitioners love to say that the chronic stress of modern life has tired out your poor adrenals, but there’s no evidence that this is the case. More often than not, they’ll recommend unregulated supplements to give your glands a boost. The Endocrine Society advises “not to waste precious time” with the diagnosis or with associated supplements.

Chronic Lyme Disease

Is there a word-count limit on comments? I tried to post a longish comment (above) and some of it was cut off.

scary ;+)

I broke a tooth last Friday.

It’s good to have imaginary friends.

Isn’t it?

Didn’t Robin Williams ask the ageless question, Is Thanksgiving the Rapture for turkeys?

People will reach for control wherever they can find it.

https://www.gocomics.com/lastkiss/2020/11/26?ct=v&cti=369988

…I was just watching Fight Club…

…isn’t believing your sick an illness in itself?…

…I’m sick of work but no one seems to care…

…this is why I always wear a mask…

…if you are pretending to be ill…

…you may have the virus…

…can you get the virus from passing through a fart cloud?…

…not if you light a match…

…Happy Thanksgiving…

…you sick SOBs…

Munchhausen in itself may be innocent enough, until it becomes by proxy.

I didn’t know I was so sick until I began looking up my symptoms on the net.

I don’t identify with illness like some do, I fight it.

Yikes! Münchausen! It’s all about MEEEEE, MEEEE, MEEEE!

Did I ever tell you where I hurt and ache! ? It all started when I turned 50….

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Gobble gobble, waddle waddle

The Baron would be proud

Tryptophan in huge doses cures all … until it doesn’t …!

Happy DT to all & have a good night …!!

Spatchcock Chicken …!

Probably really some 400 pound guy living in the White House.

Happy Covid-19 Super Spreader Day! (Formerly Thanksgiving)

I get more excited by all the leftovers. Cook a lot and take care of meals for a few days. I like leftover turkey. I get most excited by breads and coffee cake loaves. I have an aunt who makes several kinds: pumpkin, banana, zucchini, pistachio, blueberry, cranberry, apricot… not too sweet, but moist and dense and full of nut pieces. Her banana bread contains black walnuts. What a special flavor. In fact, I’d never tasted black walnuts before tasting her bread.

I think I have coprolalia. Specially when I watch the news.

No, in some cases I believe you.

It seems your biggest problem is SIA, Severe Internet Addiction. I recommend cold turkey (also, cold stuffing, cold green bean and mushroom casserole)….

True story: I was recently banned from the “Caregiver Support Group” on Facebook, because I kept criticizing a mom who was so proud of how harsh she had been toward her spoiled teenaged daughter.

It’s like, bitch, that kid is exactly who you raised her to be. You should apologize for messing her life up.

I like that formerlyflightsuit was banned from a facebook group. Good on him. Let those people wallow in their self-pity and arrogance. I think I was kicked out of Spanish club in middle school because I let go of a bunch of cuss words during one of our Spanish language skits. (I was actually set up by someone who told me that the words meant something else, and not what they really meant. I wish I could remember one. Does anyone know any really bad Spanish words to help refresh my memory?)

Sounds like the guy from Fight Club.

Leftovers. Turkey omelet. Turkey soup. Turkey chow mein. Turkey club sandwich. Turkey lasagna. Turkey, broccoli and rice. Turkey chili. Garden salad with turkey. Is there a support group for people who are sick of turkey?

Journal of Comic Strip Coincidences—Pardon My Planet,Frank and Ernest: Knight trying on armor.

I sometimes fake religious affiliations to use a legal loophole. Does that count?

This strip is rather gammony.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammon_(insult)

Is there such an imaginary disease as Comic Repeat Syndrome?

Blog-Big Tent:

Sounds kind of like the difference between the circus and religion.

How now brown unicow

The rain in Spain falls mainly

In your eye, butterfly